Important for any classroom but especially important with ELLs. Get your students engaged right at the start of the class period. Awesome tips!

I created a Back To School Night powerpoint presentation using a blackboard or chalkboard template. With the heavy integration of technology in Common Core, teachers need great and easy-to-create presentations to set an example to parents and students.

Homework incentive

At the beginning of every month, everyone starts off in the homework club. If they turn all their homework in on time, then they get to stay in the club! If they don't then they are out of the club. Students who turn all their homework in for the entire month get to come to our monthly homework club lunch. Yay for HW!

First Grade Wow: If I Can Think It...

Confessions of a Teaching Junkie: The BEST First Day Ever! I may have to use this for the first day/or back to school after winter break

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Teacher lets students tell her what they would like her to do and teach them this year. Good first day activity. Materials: Board or poster and sticky notes for each child

This might be a good idea for moms too. Confessions of a Teaching Junkie: The BEST First Day Ever! I may have to use this for the first day/or back to school after winter break

Confessions of a Teaching Junkie: The BEST First Day Ever! I may have to use this for the first day/or back to school after winter break could modify for my classroom and gear it toward the parents at meet the teacher night?

Confessions of a Teaching Junkie: great for meet the teacher or the first week of school

I love this idea and the fact that there are different sticky notes used! Confessions of a Teaching Junkie: The BEST First Day Ever! I may have to use this for the first day/or back to school after winter break

Back to School idea for starting a successful year.

Love this. A great way to understand what the children expect and want from you as their teacher during their school year :)

Student Shout Outs - Kindness Seeds, this is a cute idea to promote kindness in the classroom

Classroom management: Student Shout Outs. To promote kindness in the classroom students can write a positive shout out about a classmate and submit anytime. Read aloud on a regular basis (Friday afternoons?).

Praise students and let students encourage one another. Great way to build relationships and motivation within the students. With these student shoutouts students are only allowed to say positive things about their peers. This really develops a great sense of community within the students. Everyone deserves to feel safe, supported and encouraged by their peers. This is definitely something I will use in my future classroom!

Kindness Seeds: Day 7: Student Shout Outs. Students anonymously write kind words about their classmates and put them in the box. They write the name of the person the the kind words are for, but they don't sign their own name. The teacher writes them on the Shout Out bulletin board.

Student Shout Outs, good classroom idea.

Cute idea to promote kindness in the classroom. Maybe instead of bucket fillers?!

Board Game Project (Instead of a test, try this!) from The Classroom Sparrow on TeachersNotebook.com - (10 pages) - Are you tired of marking tests? Do your students need a break? This project allows students to reflect on what they learned, while at the same time, presenting the information in a fun way.